Table of contents

Original articles

Exposure Assessment

• A new method to determine laterality of mobile telephone use in adolescents (2 December, 2009)

  Imo Inyang, Geza Benke, Ray McKenzie, Rory Wolfe, Michael J Abramson

Workplace

• Lung cancer and exposure to quartz and diesel exhaust in Swedish iron ore miners with concurrent exposure to radon (2 June, 2010)

  Ingvar A Bergdahl, Håkan Jonsson, Kåre Eriksson, Lena Damber, Bengt Järvholm
• Lung cancer risk and radon exposure in a cohort of iron ore miners in Malmberget, Sweden (20 July, 2010)

  Håkan Jonsson, Ingvar A Bergdahl, Gustav Åkerblom, Kåre Eriksson, Kurt Andersson, Leif Kågström, Bengt Järvholm, Lena Damber
• How valid is a short measure of effort–reward imbalance at work? A replication study from Sweden (23 June, 2010)

  Constanze Leineweber, Natalia Wege, Hugo Westerlund, Töres Theorell, Morten Wahrendorf, Johannes Siegrist
• Calculation of the benchmark duration of shift work associated with the development of impaired glucose metabolism: a 14-year cohort study on 7104 male workers (23 June, 2010)

  Yasushi Suwazono, Mirei Uetani, Mitsuhiro Oishi, Kumihiko Tanaka, Hideki Morimoto, Kouichi Sakata
• Reliability of job-title based physical work exposures for the upper extremity: comparison to self-reported and observed exposure estimates (21 April, 2010)

  Bethany T Gardner, David A Lombardi, Ann Marie Dale, Alfred Franzblau, Bradley A Evanoff
• The Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES): psychometric properties of a new tool for epidemiological studies among waged and salaried workers (24 June, 2010)

  Alejandra Vives, Marcelo Amable, Montserrat Ferrer, Salvador Moncada, Clara Llorens, Carles Muntaner, Fernando G Benavides, Joan Benach

Environment

• Outdoor air pollution is associated with rapid decline of lung function in α-1-antitrypsin deficiency (2 June, 2010)

  Alice M Wood, Roy M Harrison, Sean Semple, Jon G Ayres, Robert A Stockley

Practice

• Do long periods off work in peak expiratory flow monitoring improve the sensitivity of occupational asthma diagnosis? (3 May, 2010)

  Vicky C Moore, Maritta S Jaakkola, Cedd B S G Burge, Charles F A Pantin, Alastair S Robertson, P Sherwood Burge